Informationen zu "Mark Goddard Songs without Words for Trumpet and Piano Trumpet & Piano"
Verlag: Spartan Press Music Publishers
Verlagsnummer: SP1306
EAN: 9790579983064
ISMN: M-57998-306-4
Beschreibung
Songs Without Words is a set of three short pieces, each inspired by a
classic twentieth century poem. There is an underlying theme of 'School'. 1.
School Bell The music urgently moves forward within an anxiously breathless
waltz lest we be late for school. Originally inspired by Eleanor Farjeon's
famous poem 'Nine O'clock Bell' where pupils hustle and bustle to school in
the morning: Some of them scurrying, others not worrying, Carelessly
trudging or anxiously hurrying. 2. A Blitz of a Boy With an affectionate
nod to Charles Causley's sad tale about 'Timothy Winters' who 'hasn't heard
of the welfare state'. He sleeps on a sack on the kitchen floor, and they say
there aren't boys like him anymore. Although the music is laden with pathos,
there is insuppressible energy too, portraying that lovable 'Blitz of a Boy'!
3. A Lesson You'll Never Forget! Roger McGough's black poem 'The Lesson'
was the catalyst for this piece. The teacher (and later even the headmaster)
set upon a notoriously rowdy class with various lethal weapons,
systematically murdering all the pupils! He picked on a boy who was shouting
and throttled him then and there, then garrotted the girl behind him (the one
with grotty hair). The baroque style recitative passages represent the school
'establishment', and are contrasted ludicrously with savage harmonic 'stabs'
and terrifyingly anxious 'chase scenes' around the class room, this poem is
not for the squeamish!
